Re: [RFC][PATCH] pstore: EFI Support

[AmÃrico Wang]

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:11 AM, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:00:44AM -0400, Seiji Aguchi wrote:
>> Description of boot paremeters is following.
>>
>> Â- efi_pstore_enable
>> Â Âenable EFI support of pstore.
>>
>> Â- efi_pstore_len
>> Â ÂSets the buffer size of EFI variable space used by pstore.
>
> Please don't add new boot parameters if at all possible. ÂDistros will
> not know to enable them, and users don't know how to either.
>
> Use sane defaults, and provide ways to override them if needed, but
> don't rely on them for new functionality if at all possible.

I agree. It seems that we should enable this by default when APEI and
EFI are both enabled, this could be done by Kconfig.

Thanks.
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